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Synopsis

PARADISE: HOPE

The third installment in Ulrich Seidl’s PARADISE trilogy, PARADISE: HOPE tells the story of overweight 13-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (PARADISE: LOVE) and her aunt (PARADISE: FAITH) does missionary work, Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.

Tying up his trilogy in style, Seidl’s film unsettles and provokes with wit and composure
– Empire Magazine

Reviews

“Compelling… Tender”
– Variety

“Some of the best evocations of the excruciating inarticulacy of first love that we’ve seen”
– IndieWire

“There is a new humanity to Seidl’s work; it could be his best film so far”
– The Guardian

Cast & Crew

DIRECTOR:

Ulrich Seidl

WRITER:

Ulrich Seidl
Veronika Franz

PRODUCER:

Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH

CAST:

Melanie Lenz
Joseph Lorenz
Michael Thomas
Vivian Bartsch
Verena Lehbauer
Johanna Schmid
Film Specs

Country of Origin: Austria/Germany/France

Format: DCP/1.85/Color

Sound Format: Dolby Digital SRD

Running Time: 92 minutes

Genre: Drama

Rating: Not Rated

In German with English Subtitles

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